Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to all the readers! To reflect on how far Monero has come this year, Monero started the year at a price of $13.78 (~$177m market cap)! That means in 2017 Monero increased in value by ~2,533% to ~$5.1b vs Bitcoin increasing in value by 1,469%. Hopefully 2018 will be another fruitful year for all Monero supporters!

The Monerujo team presented at 34c3 Leipzig this past week. The full presentation should be available online later at https://media.ccc.de/.

u/amiuhle posted a Kasisto Alpha 2 preview (which was shown at 34c3). Kasisto is a POS App to accept Monero. No third parties required, it connects to a view-only wallet that can be hosted anywhere (eg a Raspberry Pi in your basement or a public server on the internet).

Monero even got mentioned during Zcash’s talk by Zooko, to which Fluffypony tweeted,

BlockTower Discussed Monero on CNBC

Ari Paul, BlockTower Capital CIO and co-founder briefly discussed Monero on CNBC. He claims it is his favorite alt coin, full transcript below.

Ari Paul: In terms of favorite crypto currency, its hard to pick one, but one that i think has real fundamental value aside from bitcoin is Monero. Monero is a privacy focused crypto currency with very strong engineering.

Reporter: Isn't that the one used by criminals?

Ari Paul: Everything is used by criminals including the US Dollar and the Euro.

OKEX Adds Monero

OKEX Exchange announced that they have launched Monero trading. OKEX is the 5th largest exchange in the world by volume.

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